Comments on: Are there circumstances in which corruption is justifiable? http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/ Business Women of Opinion! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ethnicsupplies http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Ethnicsupplies Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:17:14 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-157 Oh absolutely Suze, corruption does exist in all societies. I worry about about levels and degrees of it especially where it hurts folk that can hardly fight back. I don't know whether you remember the homes for votes scandal! Another unreported scandal was going on in Hackney council where Officers were selling th e right to jump the housing queue.Someone who quit their job because he felt powerless to stop this told me about the scandal Oh absolutely Suze, corruption does exist in all societies. I worry about about levels and degrees of it especially where it hurts folk that can hardly fight back.

I don’t know whether you remember the homes for votes scandal! Another unreported scandal was going on in Hackney council where Officers were selling th e right to jump the housing queue.Someone who quit their job because he felt powerless to stop this told me about the scandal
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]]> By: Ethnicsupplies http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-6496 Ethnicsupplies Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:17:00 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-6496 Oh absolutely Suze, corruption does exist in all societies. I worry about about levels and degrees of it especially where it hurts folk that can hardly fight back. I don't know whether you remember the homes for votes scandal! Another unreported scandal was going on in Hackney council where Officers were selling th e right to jump the housing queue.Someone who quit their job because he felt powerless to stop this told me about the scandal Oh absolutely Suze, corruption does exist in all societies. I worry about about levels and degrees of it especially where it hurts folk that can hardly fight back.

I don’t know whether you remember the homes for votes scandal! Another unreported scandal was going on in Hackney council where Officers were selling th e right to jump the housing queue.Someone who quit their job because he felt powerless to stop this told me about the scandal
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]]> By: Suzan St Maur http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Suzan St Maur Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:55:49 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-156 Corruption is an endemic part of human nature and whoever it was who said "everyone has their price" was right. Corruption within any society is inevitable. Lawmakers can reduce it in places or drive it underground, but it keeps popping up in all sorts of other places - perhaps not quite so obviously as in the "soda" instances, but if anything at a more serious, subterranean level. It's a bit like the medical condition called lymphoedema (which I have in one arm) ... whereby you have excess fluid in one or more parts of your body. Massage and other treatment can relieve it but doesn't get rid of the fluid - it just moves it somewhere else. Sad, really. Corruption is an endemic part of human nature and whoever it was who said “everyone has their price” was right.

Corruption within any society is inevitable. Lawmakers can reduce it in places or drive it underground, but it keeps popping up in all sorts of other places – perhaps not quite so obviously as in the “soda” instances, but if anything at a more serious, subterranean level.

It’s a bit like the medical condition called lymphoedema (which I have in one arm) … whereby you have excess fluid in one or more parts of your body. Massage and other treatment can relieve it but doesn’t get rid of the fluid – it just moves it somewhere else.

Sad, really.
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]]> By: Suzan St Maur http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-6495 Suzan St Maur Sat, 23 Jan 2010 09:55:00 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-6495 Corruption is an endemic part of human nature and whoever it was who said "everyone has their price" was right. Corruption within any society is inevitable. Lawmakers can reduce it in places or drive it underground, but it keeps popping up in all sorts of other places - perhaps not quite so obviously as in the "soda" instances, but if anything at a more serious, subterranean level. It's a bit like the medical condition called lymphoedema (which I have in one arm) ... whereby you have excess fluid in one or more parts of your body. Massage and other treatment can relieve it but doesn't get rid of the fluid - it just moves it somewhere else. Sad, really. Corruption is an endemic part of human nature and whoever it was who said “everyone has their price” was right.

Corruption within any society is inevitable. Lawmakers can reduce it in places or drive it underground, but it keeps popping up in all sorts of other places – perhaps not quite so obviously as in the “soda” instances, but if anything at a more serious, subterranean level.

It’s a bit like the medical condition called lymphoedema (which I have in one arm) … whereby you have excess fluid in one or more parts of your body. Massage and other treatment can relieve it but doesn’t get rid of the fluid – it just moves it somewhere else.

Sad, really.
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]]> By: Corruption « Ethnic Supplies http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Corruption « Ethnic Supplies Sat, 23 Jan 2010 08:20:48 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-155 [...] recently wrote a blog about my most  recent experience of corruption and I am no where nearer to understanding why folk would be [...] [...] recently wrote a blog about my most  recent experience of corruption and I am no where nearer to understanding why folk would be [...]

]]> By: Ethnicsupplies http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-154 Ethnicsupplies Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:23:44 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-154 You know Jen, this does happen all the time in some parts of Africa. Put in that situation, it would be a tough call not to buy one's way out as I would fancy my chances in an African jail. Double standards on my part? Perhaps!! You know Jen, this does happen all the time in some parts of Africa.

Put in that situation, it would be a tough call not to buy one’s way out as I would fancy my chances in an African jail. Double standards on my part? Perhaps!!
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]]> By: Ethnicsupplies http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-6494 Ethnicsupplies Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:23:00 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-6494 You know Jen, this does happen all the time in some parts of Africa. Put in that situation, it would be a tough call not to buy one's way out as I would fancy my chances in an African jail. Double standards on my part? Perhaps!! You know Jen, this does happen all the time in some parts of Africa.

Put in that situation, it would be a tough call not to buy one’s way out as I would fancy my chances in an African jail. Double standards on my part? Perhaps!!
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]]> By: Jen http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Jen Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:22:28 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-153 Say you are a backpacker imprisoned in a backwards and rough place. And you are accused of a small crime you did not commit. But it would be hard for you to prove your innocence. And the penalty can be ten years in jail, and no one there would care. A corrupt jailer suggests if you pay him a sizeable amount of money he can get the charges dismissed. You have the money, no real problem. What would you do? Reward the jailer for his corruptness, further embed corruptness, or as a point of principle go to jail? Say you are a backpacker imprisoned in a backwards and rough place. And you are accused of a small crime you did not commit. But it would be hard for you to prove your innocence. And the penalty can be ten years in jail, and no one there would care. A corrupt jailer suggests if you pay him a sizeable amount of money he can get the charges dismissed. You have the money, no real problem. What would you do?
Reward the jailer for his corruptness, further embed corruptness, or as a point of principle go to jail?

]]> By: Jen http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-6493 Jen Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:22:00 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-6493 Say you are a backpacker imprisoned in a backwards and rough place. And you are accused of a small crime you did not commit. But it would be hard for you to prove your innocence. And the penalty can be ten years in jail, and no one there would care. A corrupt jailer suggests if you pay him a sizeable amount of money he can get the charges dismissed. You have the money, no real problem. What would you do? Reward the jailer for his corruptness, further embed corruptness, or as a point of principle go to jail? Say you are a backpacker imprisoned in a backwards and rough place. And you are accused of a small crime you did not commit. But it would be hard for you to prove your innocence. And the penalty can be ten years in jail, and no one there would care. A corrupt jailer suggests if you pay him a sizeable amount of money he can get the charges dismissed. You have the money, no real problem. What would you do?
Reward the jailer for his corruptness, further embed corruptness, or as a point of principle go to jail?

]]> By: Ethnicsupplies http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/are-there-circumstances-in-which-corruption-is-justifiable/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Ethnicsupplies Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:19:01 +0000 http://www.birdsontheblog.co.uk/?p=224#comment-152 Interesting question Sarah. I very much doubt it, since bribing people including politicians appears to be a way of life. you jsut have to understand the language and who can and cannot be bribed That said I understand that things are improving when it comes to public life, and MPS and other civil servants get taken to task over missing funding or awarding of contracts. The have procurement rules and scrutiny panels etc.Misappropriation of public fudning does make it into the news on a name and shame basis, but whether or not anyone is ever properly borught to account I can't say for sure Interesting question Sarah. I very much doubt it, since bribing people including politicians appears to be a way of life. you jsut have to understand the language and who can and cannot be bribed

That said I understand that things are improving when it comes to public life, and MPS and other civil servants get taken to task over missing funding or awarding of contracts. The have procurement rules and scrutiny panels etc.Misappropriation of public fudning does make it into the news on a name and shame basis, but whether or not anyone is ever properly borught to account I can’t say for sure
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